Company Claims Working Artificial Cortex

Artificial Developmentclaims to have
developed a working "Autonomous Cognitive Model" (ACM) based on the
human cortex. They say this AI has a persona named "Kjell" (after one of
Alan
Turing's lovers) and was activated in late June. Kjell is said to
have a working frontal cortex, motor, and somatosensory areas but does
not yet have visual or auditory cortex areas. The hippocampus, basal
ganglia and thalamic systems are also "under development". The system is
composed of 20 billion neurons capable of 20 trillion connections. It
runs on a Linux-based hardware cluster of 500 dual-CPU nodes
with a total of 1 terabyte of RAM and 200 terabytes of storage. They
claim the system is 10,000 times larger than any previous attempt at
creating AI and rivals the complexity of mammalian brains.

<sigh> How many times have I seen claims like this made? I've lost
count. The pattern is very stereotypical. Exaggerated claims are made,
backed up by no evidence of achievement. Sometimes it fools investors
or a few gullible technologists for a while, but sooner or later they
discover that the emperor is not wearing any clothes.

Take a look at their site. Where are the demonstrations, the details or
the papers backing up their claims? When the Wright brothers invented
powered flight they may not have been eager to reveal the detailed
drawings but they did have a very clear "proof of concept" demonstration
for anyone to see.